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| Manufacturer: Nikon
Category: CE
List Price: £419.99
Buy New: £215.35
You Save: £204.64 (49%)
Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 157
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 6.7 x 4.7
Model: D40
UPC: 018208912339
EAN: 5000204885576
ASIN: B000KIX65S
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 2 to 4 weeks
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent camera, great value October 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this a couple of months ago and have taken a thousand shots with it now. It is my first step into the SLR world and I am very impressed. You couldn't ask more from a first SLR at this price.
The menus are easy to navigate and so many things can be set up the way you want them. Very little button-pressing is required to set up shots the way you want them when you are out and about - in other words the camera doesn't get in the way even if you want to do something unusual.
The picture quality with the kit lens is superb. Chromatic aberration (the dreaded "purple fringing") is only noticable in worst-case-scenario shots like a tree against an over-exposed sky. And who takes pictures like that anyway?
The auto-ISO feature allows you to simply point-and-shoot in almost any lighting conditions without having to worry about settings. One gripe is that you have to remember to turn it off in full manual mode or else it will override your manual settings!
Battery life is excellent. I have charged my battery once since buying it despite using it a lot. I don't use flash too often, and no doubt that would quickly drain the battery.
Overall an excellent camera with virtually no downsides.
nikon D40 October 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was an upgrade from a Sony compact digital camera which was fine , but the Nikon is superb.
I was looking at a Pentax k100ds and this Nikon D40, and the Nikon felt better in the hand.less heavy and more user friendly for a first timer.
At first as I am not an expert I used it on "auto" but soon wanted to experiment with the other settings,all easy to follow.
This is a great first step to dslr cameras and the price and service I got from Amazon was perfect.
10/10
Superb entry level DSLR October 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've had many Bridge cameras before, thought upgrade myself to DSLR and I'm glad I did. DSLR's are the real deal, with all the mirrors and prisms and the feeling of mechanical movement when taking pictures is not something you get with bridge or compact cameras. Don't let the 6M pixels come in the way, thats good enough for prints upto A3. Picture quality is stunning, functions are great auto and manual, specially if this is your first DSLR its really simple and easy to use. Great value for money. The ONLY additional item I had to buy was HB-45 hood for outside photography, around &4.99 on ebay.
D40 versus D700 October 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I took this camera out with a 55-200mm VR lens and in good lighting conditions got good results. See www.gridline.co.uk The D700 with 70-300mm lens had better resolution allowing more cropping, however if you get close to your subject the D40 in normal light is just fine. Why spend the extra 2 000?
 The Highlights October 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I kept this camera for abt 6 months. I have a Canon 30D and a Canon Powershot A710 IS plus several film cameras.I have loved the Nikon D40 and I ve liked most of the photos I've taken with it outdoors in cloudy days and also with long exposures during the night. The camera performs very well in those situations with any lens. Indoors photos show minimal noise up to iso 1100.For higher iso values the noise increases dramatically. Iso 1600 is in general unusable. Default colors are over saturated but they can be made softer trough the many adjustment options offered in menu. Picture quality drops significantly in high light situations, typically outdoors in a sunny day. It is possible to limit the damages by shooting at minus 1 or 1 and half stops but picture quality remains rather average or poor. White higlights appear very easily, colors lose their nuances. Of course once you know the limits of the camera you will try, if you can, to avoid the critical situations . If you can't then the camera is not for you. That's why I'v sold my one. Mecanically the camera is superb and its shutter noise is...music.
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